Roundtable talk about future of Yiddish with top-notch speakers
Panelists will discuss the interest in Yiddish among college students and the broader Jewish and non-Jewish community
Yiddish World
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Yiddish in Texas: An unexpected language is still riding the bronco
In Houston, the “Yiddish Vinkel” has been meeting for 45 years, and now there’s even a Yiddish class for teenagers
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Parisian theater stages Isaac Bashevis Singer’s ‘Golem’ in Yiddish and French
A diverse group of French, Israeli and Palestinian actors perform in Yiddish in Amos Gitai's contemporary staging
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Five cities now have regular meet-ups in Yiddish
The initiative was launched as an alternative to other Yiddish events that are held mostly online today
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Who was the audience for the rhyming Purim play?
This excerpt of Alef Kats’s ‘Purim shpil,’ presented in English, focuses on King Ahasuerus as a drunken fool
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‘Shtisel’ spin-off ‘Kugel’ richly portrays a diasporic Hasidic community
The creators even hired members of the Antwerp Jewish community, nonactors, to provide authentic local flavor
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Online trivia league poses question about the Forverts
When asked what language the paper is in, respondents gave various answers including Tagalog which is spoken in the Philippines
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Reviving Jewish folk tunes that were nearly lost forever
Musicologist Zisl Slepovitch publishes music recorded in the 1930s in today’s Belarus and Ukraine
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Chaim Grade’s last Yiddish novel ‘Sons and Daughters’ finally available in English
The book can be seen as a Holocaust memorial, as its events seem to foreshadow the upcoming annihilation of Polish Jewry
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An online course on Hasidic creativity in Yiddish
Former Hasid Eli Benedict will share and discuss Hasidic music, literature and the artistry of the “badchen,” the wedding entertainer
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Course to explore Ukrainian-Yiddish dialect of the theater and the Breslov Hasidim
The dialect was once widely spoken not just in Ukraine, but in Romania, Moldova and Poland
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